So everyone wants to be a psychologist...
not that i'm an expert or anything.
Went to Dundee open uni day on wednesday so the G could have a look about and see if he wanted to go back to college or something, who knows what goes on in that wee head of his. I tagged along because i was quite nosy and keen to have a day off in the middle of the week, oh and to 'support him' of course. ...
anyway, of the 3 schools that we went to look at, psychology was the most, well, suprising. it was the busiest, bursting with pretty young things and their mothers. Apart from the aforementioned beautiful people chatting to their mates on their mobiles, as i looked about the room i realised that psychology is awfully glam. kindof like physio is in the rehab world. Has it always been like this?? I won't bore you with the details of the presentation, but lets just say i was a tad disappointed with it. G did have to hold me back when one of the lecturers tried to explain visual perception. i know he was trying to explain a very complicated thing on a basic level, but man, he tried a bit hard to 'glam it up' and managed to confuse everyone instead of just trying to stick with what the fundamentals were. but i digress....
anyway, we also went along to the school of philosophy and the school of english. man they were great! The school of philosophy was far more realistic than the school of pyschology, and the english dept were excellent! a stereotypical nutty english professor talked for a good 1 and a bit hours answering one question. he was great.
and i realised that i missed out big time on my uni experience. i want to go back to uni, so i can get 2 lectures and 2 tutorials a week, and phaff about looking wind-swept and interesting with dark rimmed glasses, instead of my 8am starts with 2 lectures and 2 tutorials per day sometimes, stumbling through the door wearing whatever was on my floor when i woke up.
just waiting for that lotto ticket to come through (guess i'll have to buy one first) and i'll sign up to study philosophy, in barbados maybe......
anyway, continuing on the pyschology theme, watched parkinson last night (yes yes at home on saturday night, only because i've been way-laid with a cold. excellent, i get a cold on the weekend, so i can't even pull a sickey at work! ;( and he had trinny and susannah on, for those that don't know, are 'fashion guru's' who are suposed to tell you what to wear and not to wear, and if you wear what they suggest you will be happy for the rest of your life and no longer have any self esteem issues or relationship trouble. So Parkinson quite subtly made a point of questioning whether they have the appropriate skills and knowledge to deal with some of the issues that come up on their shows as they've just finished filming a show 'making over' couples, many of whom had 'troubled' marriages. They defended themselves by saying that they've been through shit relationships and stuff and as an outsider they could come in and say what many of their friends have been saying to them for ages and the 'troubled' couples would listen to them more, i.e. they were more cathartic than people who knew them better. ??? a little worrying! (so, everyone wants to be psychologists?)To which Helen mirren (who was also on) said ' no-body would tell me what to wear or not to wear, i'll wear whatever i bloody want to wear'. but of course, the piece de resistence, was when Dame Edna Everage came on (wearing a fabulous bright yellow and black sequined zebra pattern dress) and completely took the mick out of trinny and susannah. it was great to watch you have to see it if you can.
I want Dame Edna Everage to be my psychologist.
In other news, it's raining today. lots. A good day to be sick then. Guinness the cat has figured out that when she goes out she can jump back in the kitchen window. And if she miaows long enough, i will get up in the morning to feed her. She miaows in scottish too, rolls her rrrrr's. "rrrrrrrrrriow". A controversial book called 'the scots and the union' being released next month, claims that "many parlimentarians went willingly into the union between the poms and the scots in 1707, and the men who negotiated the union treaty should be celebrated rather than maligned as a shower of rogues, as other historians have described." when i get clever, i'll put the link into the newspaper that i just read this from into my blog.
ciao for now.
Went to Dundee open uni day on wednesday so the G could have a look about and see if he wanted to go back to college or something, who knows what goes on in that wee head of his. I tagged along because i was quite nosy and keen to have a day off in the middle of the week, oh and to 'support him' of course. ...
anyway, of the 3 schools that we went to look at, psychology was the most, well, suprising. it was the busiest, bursting with pretty young things and their mothers. Apart from the aforementioned beautiful people chatting to their mates on their mobiles, as i looked about the room i realised that psychology is awfully glam. kindof like physio is in the rehab world. Has it always been like this?? I won't bore you with the details of the presentation, but lets just say i was a tad disappointed with it. G did have to hold me back when one of the lecturers tried to explain visual perception. i know he was trying to explain a very complicated thing on a basic level, but man, he tried a bit hard to 'glam it up' and managed to confuse everyone instead of just trying to stick with what the fundamentals were. but i digress....
anyway, we also went along to the school of philosophy and the school of english. man they were great! The school of philosophy was far more realistic than the school of pyschology, and the english dept were excellent! a stereotypical nutty english professor talked for a good 1 and a bit hours answering one question. he was great.
and i realised that i missed out big time on my uni experience. i want to go back to uni, so i can get 2 lectures and 2 tutorials a week, and phaff about looking wind-swept and interesting with dark rimmed glasses, instead of my 8am starts with 2 lectures and 2 tutorials per day sometimes, stumbling through the door wearing whatever was on my floor when i woke up.
just waiting for that lotto ticket to come through (guess i'll have to buy one first) and i'll sign up to study philosophy, in barbados maybe......
anyway, continuing on the pyschology theme, watched parkinson last night (yes yes at home on saturday night, only because i've been way-laid with a cold. excellent, i get a cold on the weekend, so i can't even pull a sickey at work! ;( and he had trinny and susannah on, for those that don't know, are 'fashion guru's' who are suposed to tell you what to wear and not to wear, and if you wear what they suggest you will be happy for the rest of your life and no longer have any self esteem issues or relationship trouble. So Parkinson quite subtly made a point of questioning whether they have the appropriate skills and knowledge to deal with some of the issues that come up on their shows as they've just finished filming a show 'making over' couples, many of whom had 'troubled' marriages. They defended themselves by saying that they've been through shit relationships and stuff and as an outsider they could come in and say what many of their friends have been saying to them for ages and the 'troubled' couples would listen to them more, i.e. they were more cathartic than people who knew them better. ??? a little worrying! (so, everyone wants to be psychologists?)To which Helen mirren (who was also on) said ' no-body would tell me what to wear or not to wear, i'll wear whatever i bloody want to wear'. but of course, the piece de resistence, was when Dame Edna Everage came on (wearing a fabulous bright yellow and black sequined zebra pattern dress) and completely took the mick out of trinny and susannah. it was great to watch you have to see it if you can.
I want Dame Edna Everage to be my psychologist.
In other news, it's raining today. lots. A good day to be sick then. Guinness the cat has figured out that when she goes out she can jump back in the kitchen window. And if she miaows long enough, i will get up in the morning to feed her. She miaows in scottish too, rolls her rrrrr's. "rrrrrrrrrriow". A controversial book called 'the scots and the union' being released next month, claims that "many parlimentarians went willingly into the union between the poms and the scots in 1707, and the men who negotiated the union treaty should be celebrated rather than maligned as a shower of rogues, as other historians have described." when i get clever, i'll put the link into the newspaper that i just read this from into my blog.
ciao for now.
posted by Rosa at 3:37 pm
3 Comments:
Hi Rosy Rosa :-)) !!
Im pretty sure every first year who wants to do journalism, marketing, party planning?? does a first year psychology paper... then they spend that year analysing their bluecoller friends every movement.
Although in psyc you can call out drinking until 6am the "night" before your tutorial research into "the effects of sleep deprevation and alcohol on modern mans ability to concentrate during the early morning hours"
Not something you can get away with in engineering...
Also lots of good looking girls do psychology therefore lots of boys to psychology therefore lots of people to psychology.
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